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Priceline Says Aloha! to OpenTable and Sayonara! to Competition

Priceline buying restaurant reservation website OpenTable for $2.6 billion shows the expansion of the hospitality space growing ever more competitive.…

Meta Booking Hybrid Direct Rooms Adds 10 More Languages

Direct Rooms, a leading hybrid meta search entity for hotels, has just announced adding 10 additional languages to their service.…

Thomas Cook Goes to “Go-To” Digital Gurus

adds digital gurus from around the social/digital web to their advisory board. According to news from TravelMole, hiring marketing guru…

Q1 Profit and Loss: Weeding Out the OTAs

In a 2014 economy seemingly stagnated OTAs and other travel businesses are feeling some pain. This is not the case…

Lastminute’s UK Boss Flies As Sabre IPO Takes Off

News this weekend lastminute.com UK boss Mark Maddock had quit brought on rumors Sabre may be planning to sell the…

Hoteliers vs. OTAs: The Quest for a Perfect App

Will mobile technology negate travel service providers' direct revenue streams? An insightful post by Skift's Dennis Schaal points to the…

European Travel Commission and Amadeus ink strategic partnership

Amadeus, a leading technology partner for the global travel industry, and the European Travel Commission (ETC) signed today a strategic…

#Travel Tuesday Tips on Travel Tech: Don’t Cry for Expedia

Reading news in travel technology this morning any interested party might be a bit confused over all the smoke signals…

Frommer’s Back in the Travel Game

Arthur Frommer has decided at age 83 that his world famous travel books should not be slated for obsolescence. The…

TripAdvisor Taps Into Medallia® SaaS

SaaS Customer Service Management (CEM) leader Medallia® has just announced a partnership with TripAdvisor® for making a better engagement via…

Online Travel Sucking Wind with Consumers! Huh?

A USA Today story from yesterday pretty much tells on an online travel industry that has failed on nearly every…

Hotel Search Engine DealAngel Opens Up API

It’s not easy trying to spot a genuine deal when looking for discounted hotel rooms, but a new Russian startup…

Travel Tech 123 Test: TouristEye

Today I ran across an interesting travel startup called TouristEye. Co-founders of the Madrid, Spain sartup, Javier Fernández Escribano, Ariel…

AirAsiaExpedia Gets Boss

Kathleen Tan has been named CEO of the AirAsia Expedia joint venture many believe could change the travel game, at…

Travelguru.com Aligns With Indian Tourism Development Corporation

India's largest online hotel company, Travelguru.com, just announced their alliance with the Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) to offer hotels…

All the OTA Commission Fuss “N” Stuff

This will be the shortest analysis post I have written out of many thousands. Many people wonder how come all…

Amadeus Mobile Messenger Brought to Life

Leading technology partner Amadeus has has just announced signing a partnership with US mobile technology provider Charter Solutions International.

Oktogo.ru Really Is – Mostly

In the coming months the Russian Federation will be ever increasingly in travel news leading up to Sochi 2014. For…

Investors Eagerly Await TZOO Q3

Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO) will hold a conference call next Thursday October 25th to discuss their finances for Q3 of…

WIHP’s DirectPack & Trivago – Direct Bookings Imminent?

World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP) has just announced a sweet partnership with leading meta comparison site Trivago, one which could…